Re: [PATCH 0/3] Tau support

On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 9:03 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> =?UTF-8?q?Asbj=C3=B8rn=20Sloth=20T=C3=B8nnesen?= <asbjorn(at)asbjorn(dot)it> writes:
>> Please see the following patches for implementing support
>> for and migrating to Tau in PostgreSQL.
>
> While I don't particularly object to adding a tau() function, the rest of
> this seems like change for the sake of change. What's the point? And
> it had better be a darn good point, because cross-version code differences
> are a constant source of maintenance pain for us. We don't need ones
> that have no concrete value.

Perhaps we should also have a pau() function, as proposed here:

http://xkcd.com/1292/

On a related note, I think we should declare "vi" the officially
favored editor of the PostgreSQL project.

(Note: No, I'm not serious.)

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